Funeral Songs

Songs for Funerals

The songs for funerals are set out in categories to help you find the kind of funeral songs you’re looking for.

See the following categories below: Popular funeral songs, young death, still birth, death of a spouse, religious, alternative, rock, death of a parent, golden oldies, sentimental songs for funerals, love songs and Afrikaans funeral songs.

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Herman Hesse

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same"

Carlos Castanada

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

“Dear world, I am leaving you because I am bored. I am leaving you with your worries. Good luck."

George Sanders, suicide note 25 April 1972

"What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us."

Helen Keller

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re still alive, it isn’t.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

A. Sachs

“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

Richard bach, (Illusions)

"If you live to one hundred, I want to live to one hundred minus one day - so I never live a day without you!"

Winnie the Pooh

"Don't die with your music still inside you"

Wayne Dyer

"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."

Herman Melville

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

Ernest Hemingway, a few weeks before committing suicide.

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain"

Author unknown

"Walk tall as the trees; live strong as the mountains; be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of summer in your heart, and the Great Spirit will always be with you."

anonymous, native American

"Fly, fly little wing, fly beyond imagining. Past the planets and the stars, leave this lonely world of ours. Escape the sorrow and the pain. And fly again"